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Chapter 20: Database System ArchitecturesChapter 20: Database System Architectures
Centralized and Client-Server Systems Server System Architectures
Parallel Systems
Distributed Systems
Network Types
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Centralized SystemsCentralized Systems
Run on a single computer system and do not interact with other computer systems.
General-purpose computer system: one to a few CPUs and a number of device
controllers that are connected through a common bus that provides access to shared
memory.
Single-user system (e.g., personal computer or workstation): desk-top unit, single
user, usually has only one CPU and one or two hard disks; the OS may support only
one user.
Multi-user system: more disks, more memory, multiple CPUs, and a multi-user OS.
Serve a large number of users who are connected to the system vie terminals. Often
called server systems.
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A Centralized Computer SystemA Centralized Computer System
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ClientClient--Server SystemsServer Systems
Server systems satisfy requests generated at m client systems, whose general structure is
shown below:
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ClientClient--Server Systems (Cont.)Server Systems (Cont.)
Database functionality can be divided into: Back-end: manages access structures, query evaluation and optimization, concurrency
control and recovery.
Front-end: consists of tools such as forms, report-writers, and graphical user interface
facilities.
The interface between the front-end and the back-end is through SQL or through an
application program interface.
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ClientClient--Server Systems (Cont.)Server Systems (Cont.)
Advantages of replacing mainframes with networks of workstations or personal
computers connected to back-end server machines:
better functionality for the cost
flexibility in locating resources and expanding facilities
better user interfaces
easier maintenance
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Server System ArchitectureServer System Architecture
Server systems can be broadly categorized into two kinds:
transaction servers which are widely used in relational database systems, and
data servers, used in object-oriented database systems
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Transaction ServersTransaction Servers
Also called query server systems or SQL server systems
Clients send requests to the server
Transactions are executed at the server
Results are shipped back to the client.
Requests are specified in SQL, and communicated to the server through a remote
procedure call (RPC) mechanism. Transactional RPC allows many RPC calls to form a transaction.
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a C language application program interface
standard from Microsoft for connecting to a server, sending SQL requests, and
receiving results.
JDBC standard is similar to ODBC, for Java
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Transaction Server Process StructureTransaction Server Process Structure
A typical transaction server consists of multiple processes accessing data in shared
memory.
Server processes
These receive user queries (transactions), execute them and send results back
Processes may be multithreaded, allowing a single process to execute several
user queries concurrently
Typically multiple multithreaded server processes
Lock manager process
Database writer process
Output modified buffer blocks to disks continually
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Transaction Server Processes (Cont.)Transaction Server Processes (Cont.)
Log writer process
Server processes simply add log records to log record buffer
Log writer process outputs log records to stable storage.
Checkpoint process
Performs periodic checkpoints
Process monitor process
Monitors other processes, and takes recovery actions if any of the other processes fail
E.g. aborting any transactions being executed by a server process and restarting it
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Transaction System Processes (Cont.)Transaction System Processes (Cont.)
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Transaction System Processes (Cont.)Transaction System Processes (Cont.)
Shared memory contains shared data
Buffer pool
Lock table
Log buffer
Cached query plans (reused if same query submitted again)
All database processes can access shared memory
To ensure that no two processes are accessing the same data structure at the sametime, databases systems implement mutual exclusion using either
Operating system semaphores
Atomic instructions such as test-and-set
To avoid overhead of interprocess communication for lock request/grant, each
database process operates directly on the lock table
instead of sending requests to lock manager process
Lock manager process still used for deadlock detection
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Data ServersData Servers
Used in high-speed LANs, in cases where
The clients are comparable in processing power to the server
The tasks to be executed are compute intensive.
Data are shipped to clients where processing is performed, and then shipped results
back to the server.
This architecture requires full back-end functionality at the clients. Used in many object-oriented database systems
Issues:
Page-Shipping versus Item-Shipping
Locking
Data Caching
Lock Caching
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Data Servers (Cont.)Data Servers (Cont.)
Page-shipping versus item-shipping
Smaller unit of shipping more messages
Worth prefetching related items along with requested item
Page shipping can be thought of as a form of prefetching
Locking
Overhead of requesting and getting locks from server is high due to messagedelays
Can grant locks on requested and prefetched items; with page shipping,transaction is granted lock on whole page.
Locks on a prefetched item can be P{called back} by the server, and returned byclient transaction if the prefetched item has not been used.
Locks on the page can be deescalated to locks on items in the page when thereare lock conflicts. Locks on unused items can then be returned to server.
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Data Servers (Cont.)Data Servers (Cont.)
Data Caching
Data can be cached at client even in between transactions
But check that data is up-to-date before it is used (cache coherency)
Check can be done when requesting lock on data item
Lock Caching
Locks can be retained by client system even in between transactions
Transactions can acquire cached locks locally, without contacting server
Server calls back locks from clients when it receives conflicting lock request. Client
returns lock once no local transaction is using it.
Similar to deescalation, but across transactions.
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Parallel SystemsParallel Systems
Parallel database systems consist of multiple processors and multiple disks
connected by a fast interconnection network.
A coarse-grain parallel machine consists of a small number of powerful processors
A massively parallel or fine grain parallel machine utilizes thousands of smaller
processors.
Two main performance measures:
throughput --- the number of tasks that can be completed in a given time interval
response time --- the amount of time it takes to complete a single task from the
time it is submitted
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SpeedSpeed--Up and ScaleUp and Scale--UpUp
Speedup: a fixed-sized problem executing on a small system is given to a system
which is N-times larger.
Measured by:
speedup = small system elapsed time
large system elapsed time
Speedup is linear if equation equals N. Scaleup: increase the size of both the problem and the system
N-times larger system used to perform N-times larger job
Measured by:
scaleup = small system small problem elapsed time
big system big problem elapsed time
Scale up is linear if equation equals 1.
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SpeedupSpeedup
Speedup
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ScaleupScaleup
Scaleup
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Batch and Transaction ScaleupBatch and Transaction Scaleup
Batch scaleup:
A single large job; typical of most decision support queries and scientific
simulation.
Use an N-times larger computer on N-times larger problem.
Transaction scaleup:
Numerous small queries submitted by independent users to a shared database;typical transaction processing and timesharing systems.
N-times as many users submitting requests (hence, N-times as many requests)
to an N-times larger database, on an N-times larger computer.
Well-suited to parallel execution.
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Factors Limiting Speedup and ScaleupFactors Limiting Speedup and Scaleup
Speedup and scaleup are often sublinear due to:
Startup costs: Cost of starting up multiple processes may dominate computation time,
if the degree of parallelism is high.
Interference: Processes accessing shared resources (e.g.,system bus, disks, or
locks) compete with each other, thus spending time waiting on other processes,
rather than performing useful work.
Skew: Increasing the degree of parallelism increases the variance in service times of parallely executing tasks. Overall execution time determined by slowest of parallely
executing tasks.
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Interconnection Network ArchitecturesInterconnection Network Architectures
Bus. System components send data on and receive data from a single
communication bus;
Does not scale well with increasing parallelism.
Mesh. Components are arranged as nodes in a grid, and each component isconnected to all adjacent components
Communication links grow with growing number of components, and so scalesbetter.
But may require 2�n hops to sen d message to a n ode (or �n with wraparoun dconn ection s at edge of grid).
Hypercube. Components are numbered in binary; components are connected to oneanother if their binary representations differ in exactly one bit.
n components are connected to log(n) other components and can reach each
other via at most log(n) links; reduces communication delays.
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Interconnection ArchitecturesInterconnection Architectures
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Parallel Database ArchitecturesParallel Database Architectures
Shared memory -- processors share a common memory
Shared disk -- processors share a common disk
Shared nothing -- processors share neither a common memory nor common disk
Hierarchical -- hybrid of the above architectures
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Shared MemoryShared Memory
Processors and disks have access to a common memory, typically via a bus or
through an interconnection network.
Extremely efficient communication between processors ² data in shared memory
can be accessed by any processor without having to move it using software.
Downside ± architecture is not scalable beyond 32 or 64 processors since the bus or
the interconnection network becomes a bottleneck
Widely used for lower degrees of parallelism (4 to 8).
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Shared DiskShared Disk
All processors can directly access all disks via an interconnection network, but the
processors have private memories.
The memory bus is not a bottleneck
Architecture provides a degree of fault-tolerance ² if a processor fails, the other
processors can take over its tasks since the database is resident on disks that are
accessible from all processors.
Examples: IBM Sysplex and DEC clusters (now part of Compaq) running Rdb (now
Oracle Rdb) were early commercial users
Downside: bottleneck now occurs at interconnection to the disk subsystem.
Shared-disk systems can scale to a somewhat larger number of processors, but
communication between processors is slower.
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HierarchicalHierarchical
Combines characteristics of shared-memory, shared-disk, and shared-nothing
architectures.
Top level is a shared-nothing architecture ± nodes connected by an interconnection
network, and do not share disks or memory with each other.
Each node of the system could be a shared-memory system with a few processors.
Alternatively, each node could be a shared-disk system, and each of the systems
sharing a set of disks could be a shared-memory system.
Reduce the complexity of programming such systems by distributed virtual-memory
architectures
Also called non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA)
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Distributed SystemsDistributed Systems
Data spread over multiple machines (also referred to as sites or nodes).
Network interconnects the machines Data shared by users on multiple machines
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Distributed DatabasesDistributed Databases
Homogeneous distributed databases
Same software/schema on all sites, data may be partitioned among sites
Goal: provide a view of a single database, hiding details of distribution
Heterogeneous distributed databases
Different software/schema on different sites
Goal: integrate existing databases to provide useful functionality
Differentiate between local and global transactions
A local transaction accesses data in the single site at which the transaction wasinitiated.
A global transaction either accesses data in a site different from the one at whichthe transaction was initiated or accesses data in several different sites.
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TradeTrade--offs in Distributed Systemsoffs in Distributed Systems
Sharing data ± users at one site able to access the data residing at some other sites.
Autonomy ± each site is able to retain a degree of control over data stored locally.
Higher system availability through redundancy ² data can be replicated at remote
sites, and system can function even if a site fails.
Disadvantage: added complexity required to ensure proper coordination among sites.
Software development cost.
Greater potential for bugs.
Increased processing overhead.
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Implementation Issues for Distributed DatabasesImplementation Issues for Distributed Databases
Atomicity needed even for transactions that update data at multiple sites
The two-phase commit protocol (2PC) is used to ensure atomicity
Basic idea: each site executes transaction until just before commit, and the leaves
final decision to a coordinator
Each site must follow decision of coordinator, even if there is a failure while waiting for
coordinators decision
2PC is not always appropriate: other transaction models based on persistent messaging,
and workflows, are also used
Distributed concurrency control (and deadlock detection) required
Data items may be replicated to improve data availability
Details of above in Chapter 22
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Network TypesNetwork Types
Local-area networks (LANs) ± composed of processors that are distributed over small
geographical areas, such as a single building or a few adjacent buildings.
Wide-area networks (WANs) ± composed of processors distributed over a large
geographical area.
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Networks Types (Cont.)Networks Types (Cont.)
WANs with continuous connection (e.g. the Internet) are needed for implementing
distributed database systems
Groupware applications such as Lotus notes can work on WANs with discontinuous
connection:
Data is replicated.
Updates are propagated to replicas periodically.
Copies of data may be updated independently.
Non-serializable executions can thus result. Resolution is application dependent.
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